Tony had excused himself to use the bathroom. Leaving Gibbs alone in his son's room. During the short period his son was gone. He would not look at the empty hospital bed. He knew that his boy would be coming back but in his mind. The empty hospital bed meant that Tony was dead and he would never see him again.

"Boss are you OK?" Tony asked climbing back into his bed.

"Oh yeah I'm fine. I think I am going to get something from the vending machine." Gibbs lied.

"Hey while you are gone you really should call Palmer. I just looked at the time and it is almost ten." Tony replied.

"Oh shit I was so worried about you that I completely forgot about him and Sadie." Gibbs replied.

"Sadie" Tony sighed.

"Hey you'll get to see her grow-up." Gibbs assured.

"I know I just I mean how sick am I going to be for how long? How much am I going to miss?" Tony asked.

"Don't think about it son. Just don't" Gibbs replied.

"Boss you need a break. Go and get your snack and call Jimmy." Tony replied.

Gibbs took Tony's advice and took a break. Trying to forget how horrible that sounded to be "taking a break" from his son who may have cancer. He was horrible he didn't deserve to have Tony anymore than Senior. He certainly didn't get to raise Sadie if Tony died. He shook away his negative and dark thoughts and called Jimmy.

"Hello?"

"Palmer it's me Gibbs."

"Gibbs where are you? It's late Sadie's already in bed and I forgot to give her dinner."

"We are still at the hospital."

"Is everything OK?"

"Yes, no, I don't know."

"What's wrong?"

"Tony just had an asthma attack but they ran some blood tests and...and he may have leukemia."

"What kind?"

"Uh ALL whatever that is."

"At least it's treatable."

"That's what everybody keeps telling me."

"Hey Gibbs it's going to be OK."

"You better be right kid. Give Sadie a hug for me."

"I will do both."

Jimmy placed his phone on the coffee table. He knew that it had to be serious when Tony and Gibbs didn't come back but this was worse than he could have imagined. He had told Gibbs that Tony's possible illness was extremely treatable and that was true but there still were people who didn't get better. What if Tony was one of them? What would happen to Sadie? What would happen to the team? What would happen to Gibbs?

"Just let him be OK. Just let Tony be OK." Jimmy prayed.

Gibbs slid a dollar bill into the vending machine and selected the snack he wanted. The ring only opened about halfway and the chips got stuck. Gibbs slammed his fist into the machine. The machine shook and the glass briefly sank deeper into the machine but his chips held on.

"God-dammit!" Gibbs shouted.

"Sir are you alright?" A nurse asked.

"My son is in the hospital but yeah I am fine." Gibbs scoffed.

"I wish that I could help with that but I can't do anything about sick kids. All I can do is pay you back the change you lost and maybe talk for a bit." The nurse offered.

"Thanks but you look exhausted. Shouldn't you be heading home." Gibbs replied.

"I need to eat something and drink a soda to wake up a bit before I feel comfortable driving home. I am Mary by the way." Mary replied.

"Yeah we met before at the grocery store. I am Gibbs the one who was shopping for his grand-daughter." Gibbs replied.

"Oh right Sadie. How did her appointment go?" Mary asked.

"She is very healthy but her dad my Tony may have cancer." Gibbs sighed.

"Oh I am so sorry. What kind of cancer do they think it is?" Mary questioned.

"Acute something Leukemia." Gibbs replied.

"Lymphoblastic?" Mary questioned.

"That's it." Gibbs replied.

"Oh well that is very treatable in fact the best course of treatment for ALL is a bone marrow transplant. Which with you being his father. You would be the best bet for a donor. Does Tony have any siblings? Is his mother still alive?" Mary asked.

"I have to confess something. Tony isn't my son. In fact I didn't meet him until he was already an adult when I met him. He is on my team at NCIS." Gibbs admitted.

"Does Tony have any living biological family?" Mary asked.

"Just his father and I can safely say that Senior probably wouldn't care." Gibbs replied.

"That poor kid but you and his friends and co-workers can all get tested to be donors anyway. If none of you are matches. We can put Tony into the national registry. If he even is sick at all it could be something else." Mary explained.

"Thank you but what if Tony doesn't get better? What if he just get's sicker and then he and the he." Gibbs stammered.

"Hey don't think like that." Mary replied.

"I already lost my daughter when she was just eight to the psycho and now I may be losing my son. Why does the universe hate me?" Gibbs sobbed.

"Hey it will be OK." Mary assured.

"I am so pathetic." Gibbs whispered.

"No you are not. Now I want you to pull yourself together a bit and go be with your son. He will be fine you will see." Mary explained.

"I may have to cancel our date tonight." Gibbs said.

"I don't mind at all." Mary assured.

Gibbs took Mary's advice and pulled himself together as best he could before returning to his son's room. Tony was sitting up in bed watching a video of Sadie running around on his tablet. When he saw Gibbs he paused the video and smiled at his dad.

"Son we need to talk." Gibbs said.

"Is everything OK?" Tony asked.

"Everything is fine." Gibbs assured.

"What's up?" Tony asked.

"If you do have leukemia. They can do something called a bone marrow transplant and it should cure you. It will have to wait until after you are in remission but it will hopefully cure you." Gibbs explained.

"My frat brother Dougie donated marrow to his little sister junior year." Tony explained.

"So you know about it?" Gibbs asked.

"Yeah I also know that the best bet is a family member." Tony sighed.

"Hey you can at least call Senior." Gibbs offered.

"I guess." Tony sighed.

Early the next morning before Tony went back for his tests. He took out his phone and dialed DiNozzo Senior's number. It took three tries before his father finally picked up.

"Hello dad?"

"What the hell do you want?!"

"Dad I am in the hospital."

"What is wrong now?"

"Dad I might have cancer it is very treatable Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia but if I have it. I will need a bone marrow transplant once I hit remission."

"Well here's the think I will be out of the country for most of the rest of the year."

"You can at least get tested. I am sure that you could come back for a few days I may not even go into remission that fast anyway. It can take years sometimes."

"Aren't those procedures a little risky?"

"Yes but dad I may be really sick and..."

"Well thanks to my spoiled little coward of a son wanting to be a cop instead of a take over my business I have no successor. So I can't exactly put myself at risk like that."

A/N: I know that I write Senior evil but I really hate him. Gibbs will take care of his boy though. Tony will get his results in the next chapter and both Gibbs and him will get a huge surprise. New chapter will be up soon. Please review and thanks for reading.